The report explains the premature descent below minimum descent altitude of USAir flight 105 on approach to Kansas City International Airport, Missouri, on September 8, 1989. The aircraft struck and severed four electronic transmission cables, located about 75 feet above the ground, approxmately 7,000 feet east of the runway threshold. The safety issues discussed in the report are identification of potentially confusing features near runways on instrument approach charts; FAA oversight of air traffic control quality assurance; FAA training of and guidance to operations inspectors; application of visual descent points to training in and execution of nonprecision instrument approaches, and incorporation of requirements for visual descent points in FAR Part 135 operations; communications of weather information between air traffic control and the National Weather Service; and revision of minimum safe altitude warning inhibit areas.


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    Title :

    Aircraft Accident Report - USAIR Flight 105 Boeing 737-200, N283AU Kansas City International Airport, Missouri, September 8, 1989


    Publication date :

    1990


    Size :

    200 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English